[anon1385]

>And no, he doesn't mock people who read the standard. The discussion was entirely about something else.

Allow me to quote for you, since this comment[1] was downvoted to the bottom of that thread and maybe you missed it:

Ahhh the "undefined behavior" trope, whereby a C "expert" who's memorized a standard trots out the abstract machine to justify his point. An abstract machine that doesn't actually exist and that no computer actually functions as.

>Just because he hadn't thought about that particular language horror side effect doesn't mean he doesn't understand C.

No, really. Somebody who isn't aware of undefined behaviour can't claim to understand C. The fact that he has now changed his position on the entire language (now advising people not to use it, advice I broadly agree with BTW), indicates that he wasn't aware of these things prior to that discussion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8834947